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enLeading Contemporary Artists Broomberg and Chanarin will speak at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 7http://www.clevelandart.org/about/press/media-kit/leading-contemporary-artists-broomberg-and-chanarin-will-speak-cleveland-museum-art-february-7
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<div class="field-item even">Contemporary Artist Lecture Series to feature collaborative London-based artists whose works examine political conflict and violence.</div>
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<div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>CLEVELAND (January 27, 2015)</strong> – The Cleveland Museum of Art Contemporary Artists Lecture Series is a free lecture series that brings distinguished, cutting-edge contemporary artists to Cleveland to discuss their work. The next installment of the series, titled <em>Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt,</em> will feature artists Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin. These provocative artists collaborate on projects that use the book form, photography, video and installation art to explore political conflict, violence and the ramifications of image-making. The lecture will take place Saturday, February 7 at 2 p.m. in the museum’s Recital Hall. A book signing and free reception in the Susan M. Kaesgen Education Gallery and Lobby will follow the talk.</p>
<p>Collaborators for 17 years, Broomberg and Chanarin will discuss recent artworks as well as their current projects. Their works comment on the character and influence of the medium of photography through explorations of themes such as the nature and prevalence of war, race and racism and the uncomfortable part that image-making plays in propagating human suffering. An audience Q&amp;A session will follow the lecture. Visitors who attend the book signing and reception will have the opportunity to meet the artists and share their thoughts on the lecture experience.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the Artists </strong></span></p>
<p>Raised in South Africa, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin live and work in London. Their art has been featured in exhibitions at leading museums around the world including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, The Gwangju Biennale, the Stedelijk Museum, New York’s International Center of Photography, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, The Photographers Gallery in London, Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art and Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Their work is represented in major public and private collections including the Tate Modern, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Stedelijk Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, Musee de l’Elysee, The International Center of Photography and the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2013, they were awarded the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize for <em>War Primer 2,</em> and most recently were awarded the ICP Infinity Award 2014 for their publication, <em>Holy Bible</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>About the Contemporary Artist Lecture Series </strong></span></p>
<p>The Cleveland Museum of Art Contemporary Artists Lecture Series, now in its fourth year, provides audiences direct access to today’s leading visual artists, photographers, composers and performers through annual lectures and Q&amp;A sessions. The lectures are dedicated to deepening knowledge of noteworthy artworks, artistic expressions and creative processes.</p>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Leading Contemporary Artists Broomberg and Chanarin will speak at the Cleveland Museum of Art February 7" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Wed, 28 Jan 2015 14:36:27 +0000kmiers69506 at http://www.clevelandart.orgCleveland Museum of Art features contemporary artists in two Transformer Station exhibitionshttp://www.clevelandart.org/about/press/media-kit/cleveland-museum-art-features-contemporary-artists-two-transformer-station-exhibitions
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<div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><strong>CLEVELAND (September 16, 2014) –</strong> Reflecting its renewed focus on contemporary programming, the Cleveland Museum of Art will present two solo exhibitions by acclaimed contemporary artists Julia Wachtel and Anicka Yi. <em>Julia Wachtel</em> and <em>Anicka Yi: Death</em> will be on view from Oct. 11 to Jan. 17, 2015, at Transformer Station, an exhibition space in a converted railway substation in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood.</p>
<p>Born in 1956 in New York, Julia Wachtel lives and works in Brooklyn. Active since the early 1980s, Wachtel became known for her paintings employing cartoon characters appropriated from sources as everyday and relatable as greeting cards and magazines, deliberately commenting upon our quickly evolving visual culture. Often comprised of multiple panels, her paintings also include pop stars, figures from so-called primitive cultures, and scenes from Hollywood films.</p>
<p>“This exhibition will survey Julia Wachtel’s career from the 1980s until now,” said Dr. Reto Thüring, associate curator of contemporary art. “It will include early paintings that juxtapose outlandish cartoon figures and politically charged imagery to her most recent works, which continue to investigate the ever-increasing pace and complexity with which images proliferate and merge.”</p>
<p>A catalogue will be published by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Yale University Press in conjunction with the Wachtel exhibition. It will feature 45 color plates of her artwork from the 1980s through today, essays by curator Reto Thüring and poet and critic Quinn Latimer, as well as a conversation between Wachtel and curator Johanna Burton.</p>
<p>The Crane gallery at Transformer Station will be the site of the first institutional solo exhibition of Anicka Yi’s work, <em>Death.</em> Yi has become known for her artwork that poetically speaks to the experience of everyday life and the things that govern it—whether major corporations like Monsanto or emotions such as those tied to heartbreak. While her art often takes the form of sculpture, it hardly behaves as such, decomposing before our very eyes or wafting away in the form of a perfume. Yi’s artwork has been included in numerous group exhibitions at museums and galleries internationally since 2008. Born in South Korea in 1971, Yi lives and works in New York.</p>
<p>The exhibition is the culmination of a trilogy of exhibitions Yi began in 2013, beginning with <em>Denial</em> in Berlin and <em>Divorce</em> in New York, to explore, in her words, “the forensics of loss and separation.” Presenting artworks from earlier in her career as well as new pieces making their debut in Cleveland amid a unique and engaging installation design created in close collaboration with the artist, Anicka Yi: Death considers, as Beau Rutland, assistant curator of contemporary art, said, “life flashing before one’s eyes, the flurry of life before the final breath.”</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>About Transformer Station</strong> <br />Transformer Station is a project of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Foundation that is designed to bring original contemporary arts exhibitions, events and programming from around the world to the west side of Cleveland. Bidwell Projects collection, which focuses on contemporary photography and photo-based art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art share the space and the calendar of events and exhibitions on an annual basis for six months each. Transformer Station, 1460 West 29 Street, Cleveland, OH 44113. 216-938-5429. Open: Wednesdays: 12-5:00 p.m.; Thursdays: 12- 8:00 p.m.; Fridays: 12- 5:00 p.m.; and Saturdays: 12-5:00 p.m. Free admission.</p>
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<span property="dc:title" content="Cleveland Museum of Art features contemporary artists in two Transformer Station exhibitions" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 13:54:19 +0000kmiers68877 at http://www.clevelandart.org